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geekchickA few more of this year's books:
- A Dirty Job, Christopher Moore. For me, Christopher Moore is in roughly the same category as Terry Pratchett: I'll read it all, and it will be funny, and lots of it will be funny enough to read again. This one will probably go into that category, if for no other reason than The Great Big Book of Death and the use of hellhounds as babysitters. Plus, greatest cover image ever. Over the course of the story, I grew rather attached to the character of Charlie and developed a little crush on the sarcastic, black-clad Lily. It's still not beating out "Lamb" as my favorite, but it's certainly in the top three.
- Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker, Debbie Stoller. Disappointed. I didn't care all that much for most of the patterns (make sure to check the website for errata if you got the first edition), but my real disappointment was with the production of my copy: it's missing at least a pattern and a half where something like fifteen or twenty pages are repeated in place of other patterns. I have duplicates of the toy patterns and a couple others, but only the last page of one of the sock monkey patterns, which are the things I thought looked really cute. Does anyone have a not-screwed-up copy of the book who'd be willing to send me the missing patterns?
- Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson.
I confess I'm not entirely finished with this yet, but I should be in the next day or so.[Edit: Finished last night.] This is the first book of the newest trilogy (the second is Fifty Degrees Below) dealing with global warming. So far I'm not as engrossed by it as I was the Mars trilogy, but I like it far more than The Years of Rice and Salt. It's also kind of fun to be able to picture exactly where things are taking place, much of the action being set in Bethesda and the Ballston area. Of course, that can be a drawback; I was completely thrown out of the story for a good while by the following sentence talking about the character's morning commute from Bethesda to Ballston and her job at NSF: "She sat on a concrete bench that positioned her such that she could walk straight into the car that would let her out at Metro Center directly in the place closest to the escalators down to the Orange Line East." For those who're thinking "And...?", Ballston is quite a good distance west of Metro Center, not east. Also, in more than fifteen years I don't think I have ever heard it referred to as "Orange Line East", it's "Orange Line to New Carrollton". The fact that it grated so badly though I'm sure says far more about my own weirdnesses than it does anything else, because in the grand scheme of things it's utterly and completely unimportant. Still, enjoying the book so far and looking forward to reading the next one.
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Date: 2006-04-17 04:34 am (UTC)I plan on picking it up next payday.
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Date: 2006-04-17 04:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-17 06:41 am (UTC)To further nitpick, the Orange Line platform @ Metro Center is between the tracks, so any escalator down to it leads to both lines. If I personally were writing about it, I would not phrase it in a way that implies there's one set of escalators down to the Orange Line going in one direction and another set for the other direction. But that's just me.
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Date: 2006-04-17 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-17 03:33 pm (UTC)Ha!
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Date: 2006-04-17 08:14 am (UTC)Meaning it's on the Orange Line to Vienna, instead : )
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Date: 2006-04-17 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-17 09:37 pm (UTC)